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The questions users ask most often, answered directly.

What exactly does ByKaranteli do?
ByKaranteli records crypto derivatives market data with its own collection network: liquidations, funding, open interest, order books, options, ETF flows and CFTC positioning, around the clock, and publishes the history free with a source and timestamp on every row. It does not open trades and it publishes no trade signals; it provides data and tools.
How is it different from competitors?
Three concrete differences:
  • Own recorders: the data comes from the venues directly, not from a resold aggregator feed, so every row has a source and a timestamp.
  • Published method: how each series is collected and whether a number is measured, derived or modelled is written down in the methodology.
  • Public incidents: when a feed breaks the status page and the incident log say so instead of quietly backfilling.
Is it paid or free?
Every market page, every CC0 dataset and the public API are free with no account. A free account adds the workspace: watchlist, journal, paper trading, calculators and a weekly digest. Membership pays for the parts that run continuously on our side: alerts, the radar, the full liquidation map, saved screens and API keys. Plans on /pricing are prepaid; nothing auto-renews.
How fresh is the data?
Liquidation prints and order book depth stream in real time. Tickers, funding and open interest refresh every few minutes. Daily series such as ETF flows, the Coinbase premium and CFTC positioning update once their source publishes. Every page shows its own timestamp and the status page shows the age of every feed.
Where does the data come from?
Free public sources only, recorded by us: Binance Futures REST + WebSocket for perpetuals, plus Bybit and OKX liquidation sockets, Deribit for options and DVOL, Coinbase for the US spot premium, the CFTC for COT positioning, SoSoValue and the issuer pages for US spot ETF flows, our own Bitcoin node for network health, and alternative.me, CoinGecko and DeFiLlama for the market indices. Paid services like LunarCrush, Glassnode, and Kaiko are intentionally not used. Every row carries its source.
Does it place trades automatically?
No. ByKaranteli records and displays market data; it does not open positions on any exchange and it does not tell you what to trade. Decisions and orders are fully on the user. Risk guide explains Kelly-based sizing from your own statistics, but execution is yours.
What leverage is recommended?
None. The platform shows market state; leverage + position size are the user's call. Risk guide shows how a conservative/balanced/aggressive allocation follows from your capital, your stop distance and your own trade statistics, the final choice is still yours.
Does past data predict future prices?
No. Leveraged crypto derivatives can lose all invested capital. Recorded series describe what the market did; as conditions change, the relevance of any pattern decays.
Do I have to register?
No. Public pages (symbols, liquidation map, funding, open interest, options, ETF flows, methodology, status) are viewable without registration. The workspace with watchlist, journal and paper trading requires a free account.
Is there an API?
Yes. /api/public/symbols, /api/public/pressure, /api/public/liquidations and the other endpoints on the developers page return JSON or CSV (rate-limit: 20 requests/minute/IP). Cache-Control headers allow short public caching. You can embed the numbers on your site, attribution is appreciated.
Support / contact?
Web: bykaranteli.com. Email support@bykaranteli.com for anything account- or data-related; live posts run on the Telegram channel t.me/bykaranteli_com.
Can I connect my AI assistant (Claude, Cursor) to ByKaranteli?
Yes. ByKaranteli runs an official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and any other MCP-capable assistant can pull live data from this site while you chat: market indices, funding rates, liquidations, US spot ETF flows, pressure scores and the symbols board. Setup is one line (npx -y bykaranteli-mcp), free, no API key. Full instructions live on the developers page.